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Thankfully, those inside the car, who have not been named, avoided serious injury in the incident, which happened on the B3128 Clevedon Road in Failand, between the Failand Inn in Failand and the turn off onto Portbury Lane, before Noah’s Ark Farm in North Somerset.

“There was one very lucky driver,” said a spokesperson for Bedminster Fire Station, who attended the early morning scene.

Tree fell onto a car on Clevedon Road

Tree fell onto a car on Clevedon Road

“Police and ambulance attended and all safe and well,” they added.

Weather forecasters had warned of heavy rain overnight and into Saturday morning, accompanied by squally winds.